Join us in New York City for a discussion on pain and its representations with VQR contributors Will Boast and Leslie Jamison. VQR is cosponsoring this “Narrative Medicine Rounds” event with the Columbia University Medical Center Program in Narrative Medicine.
Wednesday, Dec. 3
5 to 7 P.M.
Columbia University Medical Center
Faculty Club
P&S 4th Floor
630 West 168th St.
New York, NY
This event is free and open to the public. A reception will follow the discussion.
For more information, visit http://www.narrativemedicine.org/rounds.html
Boast and Jamison have both written about pain for VQR. Read Boast’s essay, “Pain,” from our Winter 2014 magazine. Read Jamison’s essay, “Grand Unified Theory of Female Pain,” from our Spring 2014 magazine.
Will Boast’s memoir, Epilogue, was published this year by Norton. His story collection, Power Ballads (Iowa, 2011), won the 2011 Iowa Short Fiction Award and was a finalist for a California Book Award. His fiction and essays have appeared in Best New American Voices, Narrative, Salon, and the New York Times.
Leslie Jamison’s collection of essays, The Empathy Exams, was published this year by Graywolf. Her novel, The Gin Closet (Free Press, 2010), was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times First Fiction Award.Her work has appeared in the Oxford American, Harper’s, the Believer, and the New York Times, where she is a columnist for the Sunday Book Review.